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Climate policy and financing

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Justice cannot be offset

Switzerland will be voting on urgent climate goals in June. Meanwhile, the Government is relying on offsets abroad for one third of its emission reductions up to 2030. That is not how climate justice works.

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The miraculous increase in Swiss climate funding

On paper, Switzerland has more than tripled its support to developing and emerging countries for climate protection in the last ten years. – Is that true? A look at the "accounting" of the Swiss Confederation.

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Aligning investments with climate targets

In signing the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015, the international community pledged, among other things, to orient financial flows towards a low-carbon economy. Switzerland is moving along that path – but in very small steps.

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The solution does not grow in rice paddies

With Ghana, Switzerland is implementing the world's first foreign climate protection project under the Paris Climate Agreement of 2015. But this project misses the mark.

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Switzerland must step up its game post-Glasgow

The final declaration of the UN Climate Conference is by no means the end of the story – with the climate crisis intensifying and Switzerland's climate budget about to run out. From Glasgow Stefan Salzmann (Co-Chair of Climate Alliance Switzerland)

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Scant investment in resilience and adaptation

Profound changes to ecological and social systems caused by global warming are now inevitable.

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Who bears the costs of climate damage?

“Treat the (climate) crisis as the emergency that it is” – this was the call made at this year’s Adaptation Summit by John Kerry, the new US Administration’s Climate Envoy. But those noble words were followed by scant financial commitments.

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Providencia: The fear never goes away

In mid-November, hurricane “Iota” almost completely destroyed the Colombian island of Providencia. Its roughly 5000 residents lost everything, but are not giving up, says Hortencia Amor Cantillo, a direct victim.

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Confused, uncoordinated and incoherent

The climate crisis is imperilling the planet. This calls for policies that transcend national boundaries and set aside short-term self-interest. Yet there is no sign of a coherent climate (foreign) policy in federal Berne.